Process for manufacturing cement.



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

KAXIIILLIAN TREIBOUR, OF BHMINGHAH ALABAMA, ASSIIG NOIR. '10 PUTNAI DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING CEMENT.

To all whom "it may concern:

Be it known that I, MAXIMILLIAN TREM- BOUR, a subject of the German Emperor, and a resident of the city of Birmingham, in the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama,

have invented a certain new and useful Proc-j css for Manufacturing Cement, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the process of manufacturing cement from furnace slag.

It. is well known that slag is composed of different silicates, certain of which under proper conditions, and when ground to a fine powder, possess hydraulic properties. Under other conditions the hydraulic properties of these silicates are either lost or greatly lessened. To produce the conditions under which the silicates possessing hydraulic'properties are present in the largest percentage and are most active,various means have been adopted, such as cooling the molten slag slowly or quickly, or by cooling the slag with air, water, salt solutions and various other means.

The object of my invention is to produce such chemical and physical changes in the sla that when it is cooled and powdered it will possess the proper percentage of hydraulic silicates under conditions which will cause the cement to set with sufficient rapidity and strength to render it valuable for,

commercial purposes.

Further objects of my invention are to driveoff a portion of the sulfur which is present in the slag and to substitute in place thereof sulfuric acid which by combination with lime present in the slag, forms gypsum, which when present in slag cement accelerates the setting thereof.

Other objects of my invention are pointed out in the following specification and in the appended claims.

My invention consists in introducing into the liquid blast furnace slag any acid solution in sufficient quantities to roduce the desired results above mentione Also in introducing into the liquid slag a solution con;

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 26, 1908. Serial No. 454,916.

Patented Aug. 31, 1909.

set forth in the appended instance, bydischarging the liquid slag upon I a rapidly rotating drum, a plate or other surface bein'g so disposed with reference to the drum that the globules of molten slag will be thrown against the face thereof and be col-' lected thereon in grape-like masses, and spray my acid solution upon the particles as they flyfrom the ,drum and while they are clingin to said surface.

' Vhen',.for any reason-,1 do not find it desirable to use sufiicient acid solution to produce the desired quantity of psum, or when .I use'any other acid than sul uric acid, which is the onl 'aeid which will cause psum to be forme in the molten slag, I a gypsum in solution or sus ension, in my acid solution, or, I blow finely powdered gypsum upon the globules they pass from the drum to thesaid surface, and while they are clinging thereto.

When I find a. slag to. be deficient in lime and high in silica, I also supply lime thereto by spraying water containing the desired amount of lime, in solution and suspension, or I blow finely powdered oxid or hydrate of lime in the desired quantity, upon the molten, globules, as above described. This finely powderedgypsum or lime, or both, do not however form an entire chemical combination with the molten slag, but for the. most part lie in theform of minute solid particles 'on the outersurface of the molten globules and prevent the. globules from re-uniting into a compact mass when they are again brought mto contact with each other, and

to solidify intoa cinder like product which is easily broken u duces a more uni orm and better quality or grade of cement.

In practice I have obtained the best results 4 thus produce changes in the physical structure of the slag when cooled, which cause it and pulverized and prov gypsum or lime, or both, which should be supplied. These facts are, however, readily ascertainable by experiment.

By my process I have been able to make a satisfactory cement, even from slag containing a very high percentage of silica and a comparatively small percentageof lime, for example: A cement made by my process from slag containing thirty-seven to forty.

per cent. of silica, and from forty-four to forty-sevenper cent. of oxid'of lime, produced results which met the standard tensile. strength requirements of Portland cement. By using the limited amount of solution above mentioned, the resulting clinker-like product is anhydrous and does not requirev artificial drying.

By the means Which I havedescribed' the foreign matter supplied to the slag is inti-' mately mingled therewith while the slag is in a. molten condition, and the physical structure of the slag when cooled is modified or changed, with the result that the solidified slag is more easily crushed and pulverized and that a better and more uniform cement is produced, which will meet the standard tensile strength requirements for Portland cement.

I am aware that. acids have been added to slag after the slag had cooled and solidified, but. the results obtained by this method are not the same as those obtained by the method described.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The process of manufacturing cement from furnace slag Which consists in adding to and intimately mingling with the molten c., solution of sulfuric acid. 2. The process of manufacturing cement sla a from blast furnace slag which consists in firstadding to the slag in a molten state, oxid or hydrate of lime, and then adding a solution of sulfuric acid.

Signed at the city of Birmingham in the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama,

this 17th day of September, A. D. 1908.

MAXIMILLIAN TREMBOUR. Witnesses:

G. F. Hons/r, J12, W. H. BERESFORD. 

